From 133f5bb98d15f3e36487d188aeaa2909bb7c90a1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: jaseg Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2021 20:26:34 +0100 Subject: README: add blurb on AGPL --- README.rst | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+) diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst index c937116..15d2654 100644 --- a/README.rst +++ b/README.rst @@ -152,3 +152,15 @@ Gallery .. image:: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jaseg/gerbolyze/master/sample3.jpg +Licensing +--------- + +This tool is licensed under the rather radical AGPLv3 license. Briefly, this means that you have to provide users of a +webapp using this tool in the backend with this tool's source. + +I get that some people have issues with the AGPL. In case this license prevents you from using this software, please +send me [an email](mailto:agpl.sucks@jaseg.de) and I can grant you an exception. I want this software to be useful to as +many people as possible and I wouldn't want the license to be a hurdle to anyone. OTOH I see a danger of some cheap +board house just integrating a fork into their webpage without providing their changes back upstream, and I want to +avoid that so the default license is still AGPL. + -- cgit